¹⁷ Then to Adam He said, ^(A)“Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree ^(B)of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:

²⁹ And he called his name ^(A)Noah,^[a] saying, “This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground ^(B)which the Lord has cursed.”

²⁰ For ^(A)the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; ²¹ because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of ^[a]corruption into the glorious ^(B)liberty of the children of God. ²² For we know that the whole creation ^(C)groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.

^22 (A)For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun? ²³ For all his days are ^(B)sorrowful, and his work burdensome; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

³³ These things I have spoken to you, that ^(A)in Me you may have peace. ^(B)In the world you ^[a]will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, ^(C)I have overcome the world.”

²³ But this is what I commanded them, saying, ^(A)‘Obey My voice, and ^(B)I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.’ ^24 (C)Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but ^(D)followed^[a] the counsels and the ^[b]dictates of their evil hearts, and ^(E)went^[c] backward and not forward.

Job Speaks of Life’s Woes